[Haskell-beginners] can't make distribution, requires rerunning ./configure

Hollister Herhold hollister at fafoh.com
Thu Apr 4 00:46:06 CEST 2013 

Now I see why you're going with the tarballs instead of the installers/rpms.

Can I assume you have write privileges for /opt/ghc?


On Apr 3, 2013, at 4:16 PM, Josh Stratton wrote:

> Not a dumb question, but I don't have root priveledges on this machine and wanted to investigate it without a formal install.  
> 
> 
> On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 2:13 PM, Hollister Herhold <hollister at fafoh.com> wrote:
> 
> Sorry if this is a dumb question - did you try the rpm from rpmfind?
> 
> 
> On Apr 3, 2013, at 11:30 AM, Josh Stratton wrote:
> 
>> Redhat Enterprise 6.  
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 9:26 AM, Hollister Herhold <hollister at fafoh.com> wrote:
>> 
>> What distro are you running? 
>> 
>> 
>> On Apr 2, 2013, at 11:16 AM, Josh Stratton wrote:
>> 
>>> Downloading the platform, it says it needs to have ghc already installed.  Am I really the only one hitting this issue?  
>>> 
>>> It's erroring out here...
>>> 
>>> ifeq "$(findstring clean,$(MAKECMDGOALS))" ""
>>> include mk/config.mk
>>> ifeq "$(ProjectVersion)" ""
>>> $(error Please run ./configure first)
>>> endif
>>> endif
>>> 
>>> But I don't where this ProjectVersion is being set...
>>> 
>>> > grep ProjectVersion *
>>> ghc.mk:ifeq "$(ProjectVersion)" ""
>>> ghc.mk:SRC_DIST_BASE_NAME = ghc-$(ProjectVersion)
>>> ghc.mk:SRC_DIST_GHC_NAME          = ghc-$(ProjectVersion)-src
>>> ghc.mk:SRC_DIST_TESTSUITE_NAME    = ghc-$(ProjectVersion)-testsuite
>>> ghc.mk:	echo $(ProjectVersion) >VERSION
>>> ghc.mk:	tar tjf $(SRC_DIST_GHC_TARBALL) | sed "s|^ghc-$(ProjectVersion)/||" | sort >sdist-manifest
>>> ghc.mk:SRC_CC_OPTS += -D__GLASGOW_HASKELL__=$(ProjectVersionInt)
>>> Makefile:ifeq "$(ProjectVersion)" ""
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 5:38 AM, Hollister Herhold <hollister at fafoh.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> (Coming from a Haskell newbie who has both used the Haskell Platform and built ghc from scratch-)
>>> 
>>> You want the Haskell Platform. It comes with a bunch of useful libraries in addition to ghc. If you're a beginner, it will do everything you need for quite a while.
>>> 
>>> Once you get used to using ghc and cabal and such, you can "upgrade" to the latest ghc (or the development head, if you're a bleeding-edge kind of person).
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Mar 29, 2013, at 7:31 AM, Josh Stratton wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Maybe I'm confused, but I did download the binary package.  That's the one I can't install.  I downloaded the binary package and followed the steps in the INSTALL file which included running the configure step (with an optional prefix) and "make install".  I don't think it's actually building ghc.  I can try the haskell platform to see what happens.  
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 12:05 AM, Karl Voelker <ktvoelker at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> This isn't exactly an answer to your question, but have you considered using the Haskell Platform (which is recommended for most purposes) or a GHC binary package?
>>>> 
>>>> http://www.haskell.org/platform/
>>>> http://www.haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_7_6_2#binaries
>>>> 
>>>> -Karl
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 9:37 AM, Josh Stratton <strattonbrazil at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> I recently downloaded the ghc distribution for Linux (x86_64) and had difficulty installing to my machine.  The configure step seems to have completed successfully, but when I run the followup "make install", it fails suggesting that I haven't run the configure command yet.  
>>>> 
>>>> atlas => ./configure --prefix=/opt/ghc
>>>> checking for path to top of build tree... /tmp/ghc-7.6.2
>>>> Build platform inferred as: x86_64-unknown-linux
>>>> Host platform inferred as: x86_64-unknown-linux
>>>> Target platform inferred as: x86_64-unknown-linux
>>>> GHC build  : x86_64-unknown-linux
>>>> GHC host   : x86_64-unknown-linux
>>>> GHC target : x86_64-unknown-linux
>>>> checking for perl... /rel/map/generic-2012.18.last/bin/perl
>>>> checking if your perl works in shell scripts... yes
>>>> checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
>>>> checking whether ln -s works... yes
>>>> checking for gsed... sed
>>>> checking for gcc... /usr/bin/gcc
>>>> checking for gcc... /usr/bin/gcc
>>>> checking whether the C compiler works... yes
>>>> checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
>>>> checking for suffix of executables... 
>>>> checking whether we are cross compiling... no
>>>> checking for suffix of object files... o
>>>> checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
>>>> checking whether /usr/bin/gcc accepts -g... yes
>>>> checking for /usr/bin/gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
>>>> checking version of gcc... 4.4.6
>>>> checking how to run the C preprocessor... /usr/bin/gcc -E
>>>> checking whether ld understands --hash-size=31... 
>>>> checking whether ld understands --reduce-memory-overheads... 
>>>> checking for extra options to pass gcc when compiling via C...  -fwrapv
>>>> checking Setting up CFLAGS, LDFLAGS, IGNORE_LINKER_LD_FLAGS and CPPFLAGS... done
>>>> checking Setting up CONF_CC_OPTS_STAGE0, CONF_GCC_LINKER_OPTS_STAGE0, CONF_LD_LINKER_OPTS_STAGE0 and CONF_CPP_OPTS_STAGE0... done
>>>> checking Setting up CONF_CC_OPTS_STAGE1, CONF_GCC_LINKER_OPTS_STAGE1, CONF_LD_LINKER_OPTS_STAGE1 and CONF_CPP_OPTS_STAGE1... done
>>>> checking Setting up CONF_CC_OPTS_STAGE2, CONF_GCC_LINKER_OPTS_STAGE2, CONF_LD_LINKER_OPTS_STAGE2 and CONF_CPP_OPTS_STAGE2... done
>>>> checking for .subsections_via_symbols... no
>>>> checking whether your assembler supports .ident directive... yes
>>>> checking for GNU non-executable stack support... yes
>>>> checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
>>>> checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
>>>> checking for ANSI C header files... yes
>>>> checking for sys/types.h... yes
>>>> checking for sys/stat.h... yes
>>>> checking for stdlib.h... yes
>>>> checking for string.h... yes
>>>> checking for memory.h... yes
>>>> checking for strings.h... yes
>>>> checking for inttypes.h... yes
>>>> checking for stdint.h... yes
>>>> checking for unistd.h... yes
>>>> checking size of void *... 8
>>>> checking for ar... /usr/bin/ar
>>>> checking whether /usr/bin/ar is GNU ar... yes
>>>> checking for ar arguments... q
>>>> checking whether ranlib is needed... no
>>>> configure: creating ./config.status
>>>> config.status: creating settings
>>>> config.status: creating mk/config.mk
>>>> config.status: creating mk/install.mk
>>>> ****************************************************
>>>> Configuration done, ready to 'make install'
>>>> (see README and INSTALL files for more info.)
>>>> ****************************************************
>>>>                                                                                                                                         atlas => make install
>>>> make -r --no-print-directory -f ghc.mk install BINDIST=YES NO_INCLUDE_DEPS=YES
>>>> ghc.mk:122: *** Please run ./configure first.  Stop.
>>>> make: *** [install] Error 2
>>>> 
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